AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Review: The Best Gaming CPU, Boosted by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 09:00 AM EDT AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D: $499 MSRP The new AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D is a clone of the existing 8-core Ryzen 7 9800X3D, but with higher clocks to boost performance and solidify its gaming … …
… The CPUs aren't bad, but they're not world-beating. Image: Phoronix NVIDIA Makes GeForce, So RTX Spark Is For Gamers, Right? Gaming is where the narrative starts to shift a bit. …
… Great For Gaming Low Power Plenty Of Headroom To Tweak Relatively Affordable Similar Price To 12-Core 9900X Low MT Scores Per Dollar During Computex last month, AMD made a couple of CPU related announcements. …
Bartlett Lake-S Benchmarked: 12 P-Core Intel CPU Shines In Gaming by Zak Killian — Wednesday, May 06, 2026, 05:00 PM EDT A German hardware enthusiast and streamer managed to get his mitts on an Intel Bartlett Lake-S Core 9 273PQE processor and put it through its paces in some informal gaming tests. …
Intel Core Ultra 200 Plus CPUs Debut: More Cores, Faster Clocks, Better Gaming by Zak Killian — Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 09:15 AM EDT If you don't have an Intel Arrow Lake Core Ultra desktop system, it may be because you opted to skip that generation due to Arrow Lake not showing a big enough gam… …
… As Intel itself notes in this slide, CPU utilization of around 40% is probably more typical of the kind of workload chips like this will experience. In that case, Intel claims to beat AMD's chip by 30% in overall performance per watt, while the two lines seem to converge as CPU utilization goes up. …
NVIDIA's Vera CPU Rumored To Crush Intel And AMD x86 Chips By 1.5X At Computex by Zak Killian — Saturday, May 23, 2026, 02:37 PM EDT A new report from GF Securities via SeekingAlpha claims NVIDIA is gearing up to use its June 1st Computex keynote to pitch its upcoming Arm-based Vera CPU as an x86 k… …
… We have a DGX Spark with its 128 GB of RAM along with a Mac Studio M4 Max with 64 GB and so that's what we'll use for comparisons. …
… The Core Ultra 9 185H CPU which was inside our test machine features 6 P-Cores, 8 E-Cores, and 2 Low Power E-Cores. That's a total of 22 threads of computing power delivered by the CPU, which also has 24MB Smart Cache and boosts up to 5.1 GHz. …
… The GMKtec EVO-X2 AI , available for just $1999, matches the Ryzen AI Halo's CPU and halves the shared RAM pool to 64 GB, but should approximate its gaming performance. …